Computer Automation Inc, Irvine, California reports that Canon Inc and a Taiwanese computer manufacturer have taken licences for the company’s Automatic Modular Memory Address Allocation System patent, which Computer Automation believes is an essential element of the Microchannel architecture of IBM’s PS/2 micros; discussions of potential licence pacts with other manufacturers are continuing, said Computer Automation, which also warned it may report lower profits or possibly a loss for its fiscal third quarter which ended on Sunday.